Prof. Emeritus Mark Scroggins Publishes Poems In Fortnightly Review

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Mark Scroggins on publication of three new poems—"Zion Offramp 76–78"—in Fortnightly Review.

An excerpt from 76:

The child an animal to be tamed,
made human, softened and planed, fitted
in the missing puzzle-piece space,
fine gradations and subtly lived conditions,
a green light to walk. The volatile spirit
of conversation or alcohol, fixed and channeled
into the axis a crystal form. Apart, the trance-
like life of plants. The cats’ indirections
and sleep, troubled by strange irritabilities.
Into speech, but this is not speech, couldn’t
be imagined spoken. Phantasmal sea-surge,
some nocturnal bird, wave-form of insects. [ . . . ]